[MTOS-dev] Seperate plugins for admin and users

Timothy Appnel tim at appnel.com
Wed Jan 23 20:33:36 PST 2008


Agreed. Also, wouldn't a system running under FastCGI load a plugin
once and then keep it regardless of the next user that it processes a
request. <tim/>

On 1/23/08, Kevin Shay <mtplugins2007 at staggernation.com> wrote:
> At 6:42 PM -0800 1/23/08, Byrne Reese wrote:
> >My personal feeling is that plugins should expose a custom
> >permission if it is the desire to control access to the plugin's
> >functionality; and NOT to arbitrarily load or not load a plugin
> >based upon the currently logged in user.
>
> Definitely. In fact, we've all been writing plugins this whole time
> under the assumption that if a given plugin is enabled at all, it
> will always be loaded for all users. So a lot of plugins will likely
> break in strange and possibly destructive ways if suddenly they're
> only loaded some of the time.
>
> --Kevin
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